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navigate8310yesterday at 11:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's a shame this game has to pander to eSports fanatics rendering it into a completely hollowed out soulless experience. From the early days of Operation Chimera to selling half of your stake and IPs to Tencent, Ubisoft has seen it all.


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bob1029today at 2:46 PM

> It's a shame this game has to pander to eSports fanatics rendering it into a completely hollowed out soulless experience.

There have been many victims of the eSports neuroticism. League of Legends is probably the most extreme example I can come up with. You will eventually get banned from the game if you choose the "wrong" play style. You don't even have to cheat or play poorly. Overwatch suffered a very similar fate - They removed a player slot to force it to fit the "5 man" meta. In the case of OW, the changes proved so unpopular they had to literally delete the original title from everyone's PC to force use of the only remaining option.

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reactordevtoday at 12:08 AM

Ubisoft kept making garbage and sacrificed their IP’s for the sake of keeping the company alive…

It was doomed.

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newscluestoday at 11:39 AM

This game was amazing at launch, recently tried it again and it’s become trash